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THE LAST WARRIOR
Karen Kay
Berkley Sensation
ISBN: 978-0-425-22100-6
March 2008
Historical Romance
Many centuries ago, a village killed the children of
the Thunder God. For their crime, the Creator banished
them all to live in the mist, neither dead nor alive.
But once a generation, a young man is given the task to
try to break the curse and save his clan. In 1892, that
warrior is Black Lion. There is only one way to melt the
Thunder God's anger. Black Lion is to find a song. A
white man's song and he must sing it perfectly with the
one who introduced him to it. In order to get closer to
the white man, Black Lion takes his friend's place in
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and travels to London,
where he encounters a beautiful woman, one of two opera
singers. However, Suzette Joselyn is already engaged to
another man. But as destiny will have it, the two of
them meet again when Suzette shows up in America,
pregnant and abandoned by her fiance'. Reunited with
Black Lion, she finds it impossible to turn away from
his offer of marriage to save her child's reputation.
But what she doesn’t know is that her brave new husband
is consumed with a mission that may force him to choose
between his people and the woman he loves.
THE LAST WARRIOR is an emotional and sensual story
between two worlds, the white world and the Native
American world; the physical world and the spiritual
world. Suzette is scorned by her fiance' and left
pregnant. She knows that if she finds her grandmother in
America, she can have her child and then return to
London to save her reputation. She does not expect to
come face to face with Black Lion again. When he
proposes to her, Suzette feels this is the perfect way
of saving the reputation of her unborn child. She can
give her child a name and then go back to London without
Black Lion later. She does not expect to fall in love
with this stranger,or to feel such desire to be touched
by him. Nor does she expect to be sucked into his battle
with the Thunder God. Black Lion is searching for a
white man's song, one to use to melt the Thunder God's
heart and save his people from death. Can Suzette help
him, or is he following his manly desire and not his
loyalty to the clan? He has only one shot to save his
marriage and his people.
Karen Kay writes a tender romance between a vulnerable
woman and a loyal man. Her writing is capturing and you
can tell she has a strong respect for Native Americans.
If you like historical romances about Early America,
this is one to read.
Reviewed by Kathy Fisher
Rating: 4 |
